In Italy, the 2022 season of Anime al Cinema, an exclusive project by Nexo Digital distributed in partnership with Dynit, it continues with the second nomination of the year with SWORD ART ONLINE PROGRESSIVE THE MOVIE, SCHERZO OF DEEP NIGHTwhich hits theaters on November 14, 15 and 16 (short list on nexodigital.it), and a preview on Lucca Comics & Games 2022. The film is produced by A-1 Pictures and directed by Ayako Kōno, with character design by Kento Toya and music by Yuki Kajiura, while Yasuyuki Kai directs the action sequences.
Here’s the manifesto.
Sword Art Online (home-published by Dengeki Bunko and published in Italy by J-POP Manga) is a series of light novels by Reki Kawahara and illustrated by Abec, winner of the 15th Dengeki Bunko Novel Grand Prize. It has been a huge success worldwide, with approximately 30 million copies of Sword Art Online volumes printed in several countries, including Japan, China, South Korea, the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. For the anime adaptation, which was awarded the best television series of 2012 at the Tokyo Anime Award, 4 seasons, two films and a special have already been made.
The story revolves around the protagonist Kirito and his heroic exploits as a player of Sword Art Online, a next-generation VRMMORPG. We are in 2022, when more than ten thousand players connect to a virtual game and get caught up in it. “Game Over” also means dying in real life. A hero manages to free the trapped players and end the nightmare. That game is called SWORD ART ONLINE. This story takes place long before “Lightning” and “Black Swordsman” were known by these names… Kirito and Asuna have basically been caught up in the deadly game Sword Art Online for the past two months. The two reached the fifth floor, centered around the ruins. As they venture through dungeons, catacombs and vast labyrinths, they encounter increasingly terrifying monsters that Asuna cannot handle. But most of all, they have to face different Player Killers, ie players who kill other players just for fun. The struggle for survival is getting more and more bloody.
Sword Art Online Progressive is a reboot series written by Kawahara himself that offers a deeper look at where it all started: on the first floor of Aincrad. In 2021, a new series of animated films based on Progressives was launched. The first film in the series, Aria of a Starless Night, a reboot of Aincrad’s storyline from Asuna’s point of view rather than Kirito’s, debuted at #1 in Japan at the box office over the weekend and was a long-lasting success. cinemas for 10 weeks.
SWORD ART ONLINE PROGRESSIVE THE MOVIE, SCHERZO OR DEEP NIGHT comes to the cinema in collaboration with the partner J-Pop, one of the most important manga publishers in Italy, born in 2006 as a label dedicated to Japanese comics of the Edizioni BD group . The catalog of over 5000 titles includes hits such as The Promised Neverland, Tokyo Ghoul, Pokemon and The Legend of Zelda, along with recent hits such as Tokyo Revengers, La via del Grembiule, Komi can’t Communicate and Hanako-kun and seven mysteries of the Kamome Academy. The catalog of J-Pop classics features legendary names such as Osamu Tezuka, Go Nagai, Shotaro Ishinomori, Moto Hagio, Kazuo Kamimura, all with their own special necklace. The production of Japanese novels was born with the passion for Light Novels, starting with Sword art Online, whose J-Pop publishes both the Light novel series and the manga adaptations that span the numerous storylines. The catalog includes world-famous titles such as The Melancholy by Haruhi Suzumiya, Overlord, Danmachi, Re: Zero, as well as the novel production of the great director Makoto Shinkai, with successful works such as your name., The garden of words, 5cm per second, and many others.
The Season of Souls at the Cinema is an exclusive Nexo Digital project distributed in collaboration with Dynit and with the support of media partners MYmovies.it, Lucca Comics & Games and VVVVID.
Source: Lega Nerd
